• The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      1 day ago

      It can be two things. But part of why the humor lands is that we all kind of get the idea of a foreign power showing up somewhere and destroying an entire culture for a golf course or highway or whatever. It’s a joke that has eternal value thanks to its real critique of something horrible.

      • Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world
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        24 hours ago

        Huh, I always thought it was a commentary on general bureaucracy, that systems are too complex that it doesn’t allow for a person to have a voice for their own protection, but South African Apartheid probably makes more sense.